ISPs Back in the Spotlight, US Banks Stimulus Check Stumble, Is Netflix Breaking the Internet? (Week of April 13-19, 2020) | Outage Deep Dive

In this week’s episode, Archana and I discuss some pretty significant events that unfolded over the past week. First, we saw a notable increase in the number of ISP outages occurring across the global Internet—a trend that had seemed to plateau in previous weeks. After going through our usual health check of provider networks, we examined an interesting online banking outage that occured as millions of Americans checked on the status of their stimulus checks. This caused understandable angst as consumers were unable to log in or access basic online banking information. Finally, we took a look at how popular streaming services like Netflix actually work, and our experts weigh in on whether or not Netflix is “breaking the Internet.”